Ron Paul's Loyal Supporters Are Getting Ready To Shock The World In Iowa

Ron Paul's supporters in Iowa are very loyal and very excited.
And they are poised to make Paul the winner of the Iowa Caucuses
next month.

This isn't the script the media has been writing for this
campaign. Instead, "Tea Party Queen" Michelle Bachman, who beat
Paul by just a few score votes at the Ames Straw poll earlier
this year, was supposed to win this state - and confirm that the
GOP has gone bonkers.

In Iowa he polls behind only Newt
Gingrich, the latest flavor of the week. But Gingrich
commands little in the way of organization, money, or loyalty
with voters.

This is no longer a political novelty act. It's not a seminar on
the Constitution disguised as a campaign. This is the emergence
of a populist-libertarian force that is growing into an organized
movement in American politics.

And if Paul shocks the establishment in Iowa, January 3rd 2012
will be recorded in history as this movement's coming out
party.

At the Washington Examiner Conn Carrol points out that all the
polling shows that even though 66 percent of Iowa Caucus-goers
could change their mind before January, Ron Paul's supporters are
the most devoted of any candidate's in this contest.

"The people who like Ron Paul are intensely loyal and they will
turn out [on caucus day] no matter what,” said Jeff Stein, a
political analyst and Iowa caucus historian tells The
Washington Examiner. “I don’t think there is that kind of
loyalty for any other candidate in the field.”

And why wouldn't they be loyal? Ron Paul is offering something
distinctive in this race - a return to a non-interventionist
foreign policy, sound money, and Constitutional principles. And
he has the ability to expand his support beyond his loyal fans,
Iowa Republicans rate him the "most honest and trustworthy" among
all candidates. It's his consistency, even when he is at odds
with the average Republican voter, that has impressed Texas
voters for years.

Even if Paul fails to win the nomination, his campaign ,like
Goldwater's in 1964, can help leading libertarians identify their
supporters and build long-term political institutions that can
draw on their fund-raising power and activist energy for
decades.

And this movement may have already have its next champion, in
Ron's son, Rand
Paul.